B.S., Computer Systems Engineering

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, AR

2018 - 2014

Software Engineer ||

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Boulder, CO

present - 2020-10

• Created jupyter-forward, a Jupyter Lab port forwarding utility that simplifies running jupyter on remote resources.
• Served as a core developer of xarray, an open source library for working with multidimensional labeled datasets and arrays in Python.

Software Engineer |

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Boulder, CO

2020-9 - 2018-10

• Lead the intake-ESM project, a Python data cataloguing package for exploring and ingesting earth system model data sets.
• Contributed to the core software stack powering the Pangeo Project. Some of the projects I contributed to include: xarray, dask.
• Assisted with the development and deployment of live (virtual or in-person) and online/self-paced education material.

Software Developer Intern

Quansight

Austin, TX

2018-09 - 2018-05

• Developed xndframes¹, a Pandas ExtensionDtype/Array backed by xnd², a container type that maps most Python values relevant for scientific computing directly to typed memory.
• Worked on integrating cuDF³ - GPU dataframe library with Apache Arrow⁴ library.

Data Science Intern

First Orion

Little Rock, AR

2018-04 - 2017-11

• Built scoring, predictive models with Scikit-learn, Dask, and Apache Spark using First Orion’s proprietary telecommunication data.

Research Intern

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Boulder, CO

2017-08 - 2017-05

• Developed spark-xarray⁵, a Python package that integrates PySpark and xarray for climate data analysis.

Cloud-Native Repositories for Big Scientific Data⁶

Computing in Science and Engineering

N/A

2020-11

• Authored with Ryan Abernathey, Tom Augspurger, et al.

Pangeo Benchmarking Analysis: Object Storage vs. POSIX File System⁷

Fifth International Parallel Data Systems Workshop @ SC 20

N/A

2020-10

• Authored with Haiying Xu, Kevin Paul

The Pangeo Ecosystem: Interactive Computing Tools for the Geosciences: Benchmarking on HPC⁸

2019 Supercomputing Conference Workshop on Interactive High-Performance Computing

N/A

2020-01

• Authored with Tina Erica Odaka, Guillaume Eynard-Bontemps, Aurelien Ponte, Guillaume Maze, Kevin Paul, Jared Baker, Ryan Abernathey.

Zarr: chunked, compressed, multidimensional arrays⁹

2020 Cloud Native Geospatial Outreach Day

Online

2020-09

• Invited talk about Zarr¹⁰, an open source data format for the storage of chunked, compressed, multidimensional arrays.

Intake-ESM – Making It Easier To Consume Climate and Weather Data¹¹

2020 ESIP Summer Meeting

Online

2020-07

• Invited talk about intake-esm, an intake plugin for working with Earth System Model (ESM) datasets.

Perceptual Judgments to Detect Computer Generated Forged Faces in Social Media¹²

IAPR Workshop on Multimodal Pattern Recognition of Social Signals in Human-Computer Interaction

N/A

2019-01

• Authored with Suzan Anwar, Mariofanna Milanova, Mardin Anwer.

Interactive Supercomputing with Dask and Jupyter¹³

2019 Scientific Computing with Python conference

Austin, TX

2019-07

• Contributed talk about Dask and Jupyter.

Beyond Matplotlib - Tutorial: Building Interactive Climate Data Visualizations with Bokeh and Friends¹⁴

2018 UCAR Software Engineering Assembly conference

Boulder, CO

2018-04

• Contributed tutorial about interactive visualization with Python.

PySpark for “Big” Atmospheric Data Analysis

Eighth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Austin, TX

2018-01

• Contributed talk about spark-xarray¹⁵.